Producing Accessible Documents with LaTeX

This Website aims to give brief but self-contained instructions on how to use LaTeX to produce documents with accessibility features.

Before delving into details on LaTeX, here are four core principles that always apply (LaTeX or not):

General Principles for Accessibility

• Whenever possible, use structural elements to structure your document. Use built-in headings and lists instead of relying on manual formatting on documents, slides, and tables. If available, start from a template.

• Don’t use color as the only way to communicate information. If you are using colors, make sure to have sufficient contrast.

• Put alt text (text descriptions) on images and graphs. (More info)

• Make sure all videos you are using have accurate captions and a transcript.

Next steps

=> Some examples of good and bad LaTeX usage.
=> On the Workflows page, you can find links to instructions specific to the kind of document you want to produce.

Getting help

Contact the Math Accessibility Team.